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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849. 296 words

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Tiotohattan lyes on the brincke or edge of a hill; has not much cleared ground;

w ch signifies bending.

is near the river

Westward of Canagorah about 30 miles, containing e largest of all the houses wee saw, y e ordinary being 50 @ 60 foot long about 120 houses, being y with 12 @ 13 fires in one house. They have good store of corne, growing about a mile to the NorthTiotehatton,

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ward of the towne. Being at this place the 17 of June, there came 50 prisoners from the Southwestward. They were One nation is about 10 days

of two nations, some whereof have few guns; the other none at all.

journey from any Christians and trade only with one greatt house, nott far from the sea, and the other trade only, as they say, with a black people. This day of them was burnt two women, and a

man and a child killed with a stone.

Att night we heard a great noyse as if y e houses had all fallen,

away y e ghosts of y e murthered. The 18 th going to Canagorah, wee overtook y e prisoners; when the soudiers saw us they stopped each his prisoner, and made him sing, and cutt off their fingers, and slasht their bodies w th a knife, and when they had sung each man confessed how many men in his time hee had killed. Thatt day The cruelty att Canagorah, there were most cruelly burnt four men, four women and one boy. When they were almost dead letting them loose to the mercy of y e boyS, lasted aboutt seven hours. and taking the hearts of such as were dead to feast on. butt itt was onely y